GAMeC Bergamo announces 2022–23 program

In 2023, the solo shows by Vivian Suterand Rachel Whiteread along with the third major chapter of The Trilogy of Matter. Radio GAMeC becomes “Capital”.

The dematerialization of processes, the conservation of memories and the ecological turn will be the three main topics investigated by the GAMeC in the next two years of program, under the direction of Lorenzo Giusti.

Program

January–December 2022
Radio GAMeC 30 Years
To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the foundation of the GAMeC, Radio GAMeC will retrace the history of art over the last thirty years, identifying a representative element for each year passed, and producing as many podcasts arising from a series of conversations with international guests and distributed through various podcast platforms.

March 10, 2022–January 8, 2023
The Impermanent Collection #3
Since 2018, The Impermanent Collectionplatform has highlighted the hybrid nature of the GAMeC Collection, reflecting its dynamic character. The third exhibition of the cycle will focus on the 2000s, with a selection of works created over the last twenty years. This nucleus of works will be coupled with works by Italian artists of the Y generation called upon to dialogue with the selected themes.

Curators: Sara Fumagalli, Valentina Gervasoni, Angela Fabrizia Previtali

March 10–May 29, 2022
Dancing Plague
The Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l’Arte – EnterPrize is the first international competition dedicated to young curators (under 30). In March 2022 the exhibition Dancing Plague will open in Spazio Zero, the winning project of the 11th edition, awarded for its imaginative character. The project orchestrates various media and experiences, reflecting on dance, body, and disease from an original perspective, through the works of Benni Bosetto, Ufuoma Essi, Klaus Jürgen Schmidt, Lito Kattou, Petros Moris, Eva Papamargariti, Konstantinos Papanikolaou, Mathilde Rosier, Michael Scerbo, and Elisa Zuppini.

Curator: Panos Giannikopoulos

June 9–September 25, 2022
Christian Frosi
One of the most appreciated Italian artists of his generation, Christian Frosi (1974) has made transience the constant element of his artistic production. Ten years after his departure from the art scene, GAMeC dedicates a retrospective exhibition to him, to look back over his production and contextualize it, with the aim of preserving his history and avoiding his work being defined exclusively by the exceptionality of his silence.

Curator: Nicola Ricciardi

June 9–October 16, 2022
Anri Sala
For the Palazzo della Ragione in Bergamo, the Albanian-born artist Anri Sala (1974) conceives a contextualized re-adaptation of his last major production: Time No Longer. The computer-generated imagery installation will bring visitors into contact with the enlarged image of a record player floating in a space station, playing a new arrangement of Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time for clarinet and saxophone. Its notes spreading through the room in conjunction with flashes of light that follow the rhythm of the music will reveal the architectural lines and frescoes contained in the ancient hall, thus extending to the origins of local public history the bridge between past and present, between memory and projection into the future.

Curators: Lorenzo Giusti, Sara Fumagalli

October 13, 2022–January 8, 2023
Dora Budor
For her first solo exhibition in an Italian museum, the Croatian-born artist Dora Budor (1984) will create a project in close relationship to the spatial qualities of Spazio Zero, in which characteristics of the given context are amplified, dislodged, or re-circuited. Conceived as a continuation of the artist’s exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz (2022), a number of works in the show will concern architecture as a tectonic, infrastructural, and gendered system.

Curators: Sara Fumagalli, Valentina Gervasoni

January–December 2023
Radio GAMeC Capital
In the year that Bergamo and Brescia become the Italian capitals of culture, Radio GAMeC will give life to a rich schedule of investigations and in-depth studies dedicated to the most urgent issues of contemporaneity, with particular attention to the theme of the ecological turn and the reconversion of processes. Thanks to a recording studio inside the museum and to a new mobile device to reach different points of the vast territory of the two provinces, Radio GAMeC Capital will broadcast regularly dealing with the key themes of the present and opening up cultural experience to public participation.

February–May 2023
The Trilogy of Matter
The third and final major exhibition of the cycle started in 2018 with Black Hole and following in 2021 with Nothing is Lost, will explore the theme of dematerialization by connecting the research on the void initiated by the early movements of the historical avant-garde with the investigations on flow, begun in the years of early computerization and continued through the post-digital era via the use of new languages and simulated realities. Occupying all the spaces of the museum and with a part developed exclusively online, the exhibition will host some of the great protagonists of the history of art together with artists from the most recent generations.

Curators: Lorenzo Giusti, Domenico Quaranta

June–October 2023
Vivian Suter
The works of the Argentinian-born artist Vivian Suter (1949) tell of the intimate bond that keeps them linked to the vital forces of the environment from which they originate. After moving to Guatemala at the age of thirty-five, since 2005, when most of her works were submerged during the passage of Hurricane Stan, the artist has further opened her research to the infinite possibilities of chance, accepting metamorphosis as an essential element of art and painting. The exhibition, the first ever by the artist staged in an Italian museum, will bring together a significant series of Vivian Suter’s canvases, created over various phases of her career.

Curator: Lorenzo Giusti

June–October 2023
Rachel Whiteread
One of the most celebrated English artists of her generation, Rachel Whiteread (1963) reflects on the memory of places, investigating the relationship between empty and full, between past and present, creating sculptures akin to architecture that can reach very large dimensions. For the exhibition at Palazzo della Ragione, the artist will create a group of new works inspired by the architectural context, thus creating a new bond between past and present, between material history and the modern-day culture of form.

Curators: Lorenzo Giusti, Sara Fumagalli